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“I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.”

Firsts Two Guy Teaching Band Rehearsal

Author:Ike Turner

“As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?”

Ifs Mind Firsts Heart Today Jesus Christ Teach Teaching Victim Careful Granted Followers Be Careful Heart And Mind Caricatures

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are apt to become rusted with resentment and exhaustion. Since there is great truth in the well-known statement "We teach people how to treat us," you can start teaching others to shower you with appreciation by showering yourself first.”

People Firsts Wells Stills Known Teach Teaching Awareness Treats Appreciation Oil Statements Wheels Resentment Showers Well Known Exhaustion Teaching Others Wheels Turning

Author:Sue Thoele

“I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.”

Firsts Art Teach Teaching Taught

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.”

Way Firsts Purpose Realizing Effort Teaching Achieve Students Breakthrough Better Ways Freeze

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.”

Ifs Men Firsts Believe Courses Powerful Teach Grace Teaching Depends Ought Holy Lessons Paid Workers Proof Ghost Disputes Holy Ghost

Book:The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

Source: The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen

“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.”

Ifs Way Needs Trying Firsts Children Play Goal Teaching Achieve Design Discipline Curiosity Good Times Controlled Unpredictable Relaxed Conditioning Boundless Individualistic

Author:Roger Fouts

“The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.”

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

“I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.”

Firsts Body Half Study Teaching Female Including Illuminating Female Body

Author:Christiane Northrup

“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.”

World Firsts Running Peace Christ Community Forget Teacher Trouble Teaching Labor Universal Bases Neighbor Obligation Followers Thyself Our Community Love Thy Neighbor World Love

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Men Firsts Two Important Levels Common Education Teacher Teaching Intellectual Every Man Rise Above

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.”

“The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.”

Firsts Philosophy Three Teaching Taught Cycles Basics Prerequisites

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.”

Firsts Kids Young Teacher Teaching Computer Fifth Wire Labs Connectors Fifth Graders

Author:Steve Wozniak

“That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.”

Firsts Children Forget Teaching Authority

Author:Susan Sarandon

“On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.”

Firsts My Own Teaching Building Classroom

Author:Tim Gunn

“At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.”

“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”

Firsts May Children Age Enemy Teacher Teaching Dangerous Ignorance Civilization Creating Our Children Stupidity Destroyed Nonsense Artificial Intelligence Artificial

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.”

Firsts Heart Book Feelings Suffering Turns Strong Understanding Steps Practice Path Teaching Acceptance Grew Forgiving Currents Radical Refuge Nurturing Unworthy Radical Acceptance

Author:Tara Brach

“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Firsts States Nations United Powerful Fiction United States Teaching Building Tools Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Initials Very Powerful Philippines Nation Building Teaching History

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.”

“There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.”

Needs Firsts Humans Said Law Jesus Christ Differences Human Beings Sin Teaching Stones Fundamentals Committed Jew Muhammad Great Teaching Good Teaching

Author:Ali Sina

“What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary.”

World Way Writing Firsts Matter Whole Courses Saws Teaching Internet Wide Invention Whole World Revolutionary Digital 80s Shifting Arrivals Format World Wide Web Browsers

Author:Robert Coover

“A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.”

Firsts Children Reason Energy Force Teaching Periods Sensitive Initials Force And Energy

Author:Maria Montessori

“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.”

Firsts Humans Humanity Jesus Human Beings Consciousness Teacher Teaching Manifestation Organized Misunderstood Great Teacher Organized Religion Flowering Human Consciousness Laos Lao Tzu

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.”

“I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.”

Way Feels Firsts Persons Felt Term Teach Teaching Concepts Nervous Shy First Person Foreshadowing

Author:Tao Lin

“The Four Reliances. First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.”

Mind Firsts Real Spirit Teacher Four Teaching Personality Pure Perception Essence Thirds Buddhist Rely Interpretation Fourth Superficial Reliance Judgmental Real Wisdom

Author:Gautama Buddha

“For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.”

Firsts Country Church Teaching Fine Vote Catholic Abortion Acceptable Amendments First Amendment

Author:Patrick Leahy

“I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.”

Giving Writing Firsts Culture Careers Impossible One Thing Teaching Divine Poet Obsession Poetry Is Lectures

Author:Maxine Kumin

“You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.”

Knows Firsts School Speak Parent Growing Up Knowing Teacher Growing Teaching Understood Speak English

Author:Emily Rios

“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”

“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Firsts Two Reason Class Teaching Security Changed Towns University Inevitable Reason Why Agency 80s Continuity Harvard Grim Two Days Harvard University

Author:Hal Hartley

“A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.”

“The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.”

Firsts Teaching Example Activity

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Hard Problem Felt Brain Week Teaching First Time Afternoon Friday Cables Jumpers Friday Afternoon

Author:Stephen King

“The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.”

People Trying Firsts Believe Creativity Creative Teaching Fields Tasks Nurture

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.”

Firsts Home Able Water Community Challenges Support Teaching Students College Conviction Temptation Bridges Consistent Multitudes Schooled Semester Troubled Waters

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person. From Aristotle to Heidegger, they try to consider their own lives as something marginal or accidental. What was essential was their teaching and their thinking. Biography is something empirical and outside, and is considered an accident that isn't necessarily or essentially linked to the philosophical activity or system.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Said Speak Teaching Activity Essentials Tradition Philosophical Accidents Biographies Linked First Person Heidegger

Author:Jacques Derrida

“His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.”

World Firsts Teaching Modern Century Development Discovery Chess Eras Champion Contribution 19th Century Turning Points Scientific Discovery World Champions

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first... I want to watch it suffer.”

Want Firsts Believe America Political Suffering Dies Politics Watches Teaching Lifetime Killing Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Brad Stine

“Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.”

Firsts Matter Christian Spiritual Christ Teaching Tradition Feminist I've Learned Dogma Spiritual Experience

Author:Jane Fonda

“I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was headed back east to study music, and if I hadn't been intrigued with the Native American flute, I suppose I'd now be jockeying for first chair of the brass section of some orchestra, or perhaps I'd be teaching music in a school system.”

“Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.”

Firsts Understanding Teaching Abstract Concrete Abstraction Thorough Thorough Understanding

Author:Morris Kline

“I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.”

People Ifs Firsts Made Ideas Interesting Audience Teaching Research Classroom Feedback Captives Listen To Me

Author:Edmund Morgan

“Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.”

Firsts Enough Shows Wanted Sides Term Teaching Students Needed Skills Concerned Assuming I Realized Relate Good Enough Allies Providence Oakland

Author:Pedro Noguera

“I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?”

Years Firsts Remember Turns Reading Teaching

Author:Juliana Spahr

“I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.”

Firsts Teaching Prison

Author:Peter Orner

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